Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowding of the planet means authoritarian rule because "the central government is forced to assume additional responsibilities for the general welfare." Wrote Huxley: "It is a pretty safe bet that, twenty years from now, all the world's overpopulated and underdeveloped countries will be under some form of totalitarian rule." While man is cluttering the earth with his birth rate, he is also following a "Will to Order," the fundamental wish for harmony that softens him for the propagandists of authority...
...Arts and Merion, Pa.'s Barnes Foundation, started out as a science-fiction bug, was converted to the submarine world almost as soon as he donned his first face mask five years ago at Star Island, N.H. Says Swimmer Swanson: "Why bother going into space or to another planet when there is another world right beneath the waves, and one that is much more accessible in my lifetime." Unlike Cardinal, who sketches on dry land, Swanson has worked out a technique for drawing and coloring underwater. He uses a waterproof Japanese oil-base pastel stick on a specially coated...
National prestige may make it important to shoot humans through space, but an actual landing on the moon or a planet is about the only mission for which a human crew would be a profitable payload. Some of the scientists at Denver thought that the first landings should be made by instruments to feel out the ground, but all agreed that only the alert and flexible human brain can do full justice to unexpected phenomena. Even on the nearby moon, the unexpected is to be expected. No one knows for sure what the actual surface is like...
...time now I expect to hear an earth-bound mother talking to her space-bound daughter thusly: "But dear, you simply cannot do it. You just cannot marry out of your planet...
...purpose of space exploration should be to find livable land and atmosphere for this ever-growing population of ours. In a couple of hundred years, this planet is going to be loaded. (Bumper-to-bumper freeway traveling is here already...